Selected Portions of Transcription Concerning the Incident Involving Japan Airlines Flight 1628

This document contains selected portions of a transcript from February 4, 1987, detailing communications regarding an incident involving Japan Airlines Flight 1628 on November 18, 1986. The transcript records the flight crew's reports of unidentified traffic in their vicinity while flying over Alaska. The crew described seeing navigation and strobe lights, which they initially identified as white and yellow, and reported the object's position relative to their aircraft. Throughout the flight, the crew and air traffic controllers at the Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center, as well as the Regional Operations Command Center (ROCC), attempted to identify the object. Controllers reported intermittent primary radar returns, though at times they were unable to confirm the target's presence or identity. The transcript includes communications with a United Airlines flight (UA69) and a military C130 aircraft (TOTEM) that were requested to assist in visual identification. Despite these efforts, the nature of the object remained unidentified, with the JAL crew eventually reporting that the object had disappeared. The document serves as a record of the real-time air traffic control and cockpit communications during the event.